The Price family packs up their belongings for their flight to the Congo, where they are going to spend a year as the family of a missionary. The four girls increasingly mature and develop differently as each adapts to African village life and the political turmoil that overtakes the Belgian Congo in the 1960s. The narrative then alternates among the four daughters, with a slight preference for the voice of the most outspoken one, Leah. Orleanna Price, the mother of the family, narrates the introductory chapter in five of the novel's seven sections. In his hurried mispronunciation, he actually says "Jesus is poisonwood". He concludes his sermons with the Kikongo expression "Tata Jesus is bängala" with the intent of saying "Jesus is most precious". The father of the family creates his own "misprint" of the Bible. The novel's title refers to Bible errata. state of Georgia to the village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo, close to the Kwilu River. The Poisonwood Bible (1998), by Barbara Kingsolver, is a best-selling novel about a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 move from the U.S.
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